My opinion on a 'catch fire quick' topic

That crap about conversions is just that--crap.

I could run off on-line and come up with dozens of similarly anectdotal stories of those who became agnostic or atheistic.

Always? Or only when atheists become Christians?

I'm sure. But the real question is: Why an enlightened, self-possessed, self-made, self-confident, free-thinking, afraid-of-nothing, thoroughly rational, atheist-secularist would ever become a Christian? Maybe "the light" is not as definitive as you think? Not as convincing as you take it to be? Not as solid as you believe? Perhaps atheism can be also put into question by those who remain open minded? Perhaps the old objections against Christianity become meaningless for those who continue their search?

And this means that, maybe, one day, even you could become a Christian too... :wink: [hey, you never know...]

Unless, of course, your embrace atheism blindly and fanatically, as many undoubtedly do...

:wink:

. . . frightened little minds who are unable to come to terms with the billion to one accident that is their existence.

Likely himself, Wilso, as he certainly doesn't have a shot with any of us . . .

and here i was on the verge, the very edge, the thin ice of being blinded by the light of the holy see, only to realize i was in Vegas.

No, the real question is why an benighted, self-doubting, dependent, indoctrinated, constantly trepidacious, always irrational Catholic would ever become an atheist--although, of course, the answer is self-evident.

You have no argument here, as Craven and I and so many others have pointed out.

You quote your superstitions, and call this open-mindedness...

...as though you were somehow a bold thinker...

...freeing yourself from the bonds of thousands of years of rigid atheism...

you are a sad case

who cannot progress beyond the bounds of a truly monolithic and rigid institutionalized superstition.

Save your cutesy crap like the "lol" and the "wink"...

...for the adolescent types on-line...

i'll not bother because its a waste of time for a closed mind like yours...

which never has explored other possibilities than your superstition.

it is truly pathetic...

portray yourself as an original thinker....

swimming against the tide.

This is not your thread, and i'll participate as i please--but i'll not repsond to you any longer...

because you offer nothing but faded, shop-worn ideas...

and your only rhetorical devices are to sneer, to set up pathetic straw men you are confident of knocking down, and to dress up your rigid traditionalism as a new freedom of thought.

Last you'll hear from me, you're not worth my time.

All that LibertyD said plus socialization, and a consistent current of comfort. I think that many people like the stability of going to church, and meeting up with like minded people. In a world where people have become more and more isolated, a church may be a place where a person can relax, and feel at home. It is sort of an extended family.